Stalin's Last Plot

Philippe Saada
2011-08-26


8
0 min

January 1953: On the eve of his death Stalin finds himself yet another imaginary enemy: Jewish doctors. He organizes the most violent anti-Semitic campaign ever launched in the USSR, by fabricating the "Doctors' Plot," whereby doctors are charged with conspiring to murder the highest dignitaries of the Soviet Regime. Still unknown and untold, this conspiracy underlines the climax of a political scheme successfully masterminded by Stalin to turn the Jews into the new enemies of the people. It reveals his extreme paranoia and his compulsion to manipulate those around him. The children and friends of the main victims recount for the first time their experience and their distress related to these nightmarish events.

Cast

Name Character Team
Patrick Floersheim Narrator (voice) Unowned
Jonathan Brent Self - Historian Unowned
Joseph Stalin Self (archive footage) Unowned
Vyacheslav Molotov Self (archive footage) Unowned
Natalya Rapoport Self - Daughter of doctor Yacov Rapoport Unowned
Gennady Kostyrchenko Self - Historian Unowned
Yakov Etinguer Self - Son of doctor Yakov Etinguer Unowned
Nikita Petrov Self - Historian Unowned
Lavrentiy Beria Self (archive footage) Unowned
Georgi Malenkov Self (archive footage) Unowned
Igor Prelin Self - Former KGB colonel Unowned
Solomon Mikhoels Self (archive footage) Unowned
Natalia Mikhoels Self - Daughter of Solomon Mikhoels Unowned
Nina Mikhoels Self - Daughter of Solomon Mikhoels Unowned
Vladimir Vinogradov Self (archive footage) Unowned
Lyubov Vovsi Self - Daughter of doctor Miron Vovsi Unowned
Miron Vovsi Self (archive footage) Unowned
Leonid Kogan Self - Son of doctor Boris Kogan Unowned
Rudolf Slánský Self (archive footage) Unowned
Leonid Mlechin Self - Journalist Unowned